Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:55:20 +0200
Subject: ISMAR 04 First Call for Papers

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***** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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***** ISMAR 04
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***** 3rd IEEE and ACM International Symposium
***** on Mixed and Augmented Reality
***** Nov. 2-5, 2004 in Arlington, VA, USA
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Conference web site: http://www.ismar04.org
Paper submissions deadline: May 14, 2004

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
In cooperation with ACM (pending)

In the last decade Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have
evolved from being experimental technologies to mainstream research
activities that are starting to show impact on industry and society.
By their very nature, MR and AR are highly interdisciplinary fields
involving signal processing, computer vision, computer graphics, user
interfaces, human factors, wearable computing, mobile computing,
computer networks, distributed computing, information access,
information visualization, and hardware design for new displays and
sensors. MR/AR concepts are applicable to a wide range of applications.

The International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality is the
premier forum of the field. A series of independent conferences on
Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality started in 1999, and has led
to a joint symposium in 2002, This year we are proud to present the
third installment of the series, the 3rd International Symposium on
Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR04).

The symposium will be held from Nov 2-5, 2004, in Arlington, VA (near
Washington, DC). It will be co-located with the 8th IEEE International
Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC04 (Oct 31-Nov 3, 2004), to bring
together the MR/AR and wearables communities. We invite you all to
participate in this great event for the exchange of new ideas in this
exiting field!

Call for Papers ISMAR 04 invites paper and poster submissions in the
general field of Mixed and Augmented Reality. Topics include, but are
not limited to:

- MR/AR applications
   - personal MR/AR information systems
   - industrial MR/AR applications
   - medical MR/AR applications
   - MR/AR for entertainment
   - MR/AR for architecture Sensors
- position and orientation tracking technology
   - calibration methods and sensor fusion
   - vision-based registration and tracking
   - acquisition of 3D scene descriptions
- system architecture
   - wearable computing
   - distributed and collaborative MR/AR
   - display hardware
- user interaction
   - interaction techniques for MR/AR
   - collaborative MR/AR
   - multimodal input and output
- information presentation
   - real-time rendering
   - photorealistic rendering
   - object overlay and spatial layout techniques
   - aural and haptic augmentation
   - mediated reality
- human factors
   - usability studies
   - acceptance of MR/AR technology
   - social implications

Important Dates:
- Paper and poster submissions: May  14, 2004
- Notification date:            July 20, 2004
- Symposium:                    Nov 2-5, 2004

Chairs and Committees:

General Chairs
- Mark Billinghurst
       HITLabNZ, New Zealand
- Yohan Baillot
       Naval Research Lab, USA

Program Chairs
- Gudrun Klinker
       Technische Universit=E4t M=FCnchen, Germany
- Jannick Rolland
       University of Central Florida, USA
- Hiroyuki Yamamoto
       Canon, Japan

Demo/Exhibition Chair
- Tobias H=F6llerer
       University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Publication Chair
- Oliver Bimber
       Bauhaus Universit=E4t Weimar, Germany

Publicity Chair
- Dieter Schmalstieg
       Technische Universit=E4t Wien, Austria

Local Arrangements Chair
- Robert Lindeman
       George Washington University

Financial Chair
- Reinhold Behringer
       George Washington University

Student Volunteers Chair
- Ozan Cakmakci
       University of Central Florida

Steering Committee
- Ron Azuma, HRL Laboratories, USA
- Reinhold Behringer, Rockwell Science Center, USA
- Mark Billinghurst, HITLabNZ, New Zealand
- Steve Feiner, Columbia University, USA
- Gudrun Klinker, Technische Universit=E4t M=FCnchen, Germany
- David Mizell, Cray Research, USA
- Stefan M=FCller, Universit=E4t Koblenz, Germany
- Nassir Navab, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
- Ulrich Neumann, University of Southern California, USA
- Dieter Schmalstieg, Technische Universit=E4t Wien, Austria
- Didier Stricker, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
- Haruo Takemura, Osaka University, Japan
- Hideyuki Tamura, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
- Naokazu Yokoya, Nara Institute of Science & Technology, Japan

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Contact: ismar04@ims.tuwien.ac.at